I have to admit that the Xandros distribution was chosen at least in part because of the Eee PC. As you may know, that device has become very popular, and this definitely influenced us.

Understood -- you have to tailor for your market focus. The question I might ask is if the same people buying a cheap Eee PC with Xandros, are they the same people using a $300 BlackBerry smartphone? I of course haven't done the market research but ad hoc experience tells me that a linux user using a BlackBerry tends to be a bit more technical and uses one of the more popular aforementioned distros they install themselves.

My $0.02 of course. I've been doing this for way too long and am jaded in my views...